How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog-II

In the last post I have mentioned few ideas, but besides that they are few more ideas that should be considered so I thought I would make another post covering them. These things can not be ignored because this is equally important as previous post.

Have patience:-

It takes some time to make your blog grow and increase its readership. If you sow a seed then it will not become tree in one day. It takes time like consuming sun light, nutrients and water. It takes some time to grow and give us fruits. The same applies to blogging. If there is traffic then we can make good money. Don’t worry about making money just concentrate bringing traffic then automatically dollars flow in.

Submit articles to social networking sites:-

When you finish writing new articles don’t forget to submit to popular social networking sites like Digg, Propeller,Reddit etc. Be an active commenter on this sites you can some sort of traffic from this one. The social networking sites have large number of million visitors per day.

Link to Other Blogs:-

Be sure to link to other blogs where ever necessary in the post. This makes

the others blogs that you are helping them readers find their content. This could establish good relation between both bloggers. And later you can find the bloggers linking to you. This will help us increase search rankings and traffic.

Get Links from Other Blogs:-

Commenting on other blogs is best way to get link backs even from popular blog with out too much effort. It will help us gain back links even with greater ranked blogs. It is smart, easy, quick way of getting back links.

Participate In forums:-

Participate in big forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint and other ones. Be an active user of the forum. Given an advice on particular topic and leave your url in signature. If the thread starter find your answer useful then I am sure he will be visiting your blog also. But give advice when you only know what is it ? Don’t give any thing which doesn’t make any sense. It will backfire you on the go.

Don’t use the email:-

Don’t use the email especially for promoting your blog. If some one asks some thing to you then you can answer them by leaving your url in signature. Be careful of automatic signatures that most email programs will allow.

Offline techniques:-

Offline promoting techniques cannot be ignored. It can bring some new readers to the blog. It might be few visitors but if they contribute for the growth of your blog then why would you ignore it. Offline techniques include advertising on business cards, classifieds, and press releases.

Doing some SEO:-

When I started this blog I ignored seo which most of the bloggers do. Knowing basic things of SEO is important which can help get traffic from search engine. Knowing SEO can bring quick good positions in search engines.

Adding Bookmarking buttons:-

Today they are many bookmarking items available for bloggers. The readers can subscribe to our blog using these bookmarking items. It will help spread a word about our blog in simple way. This things help in book marking items in Del.icio.us,Technorati or Sharethis . Some people are using email a friends so that it can be shared with friends. Some people can subscribe or threads via email.

Advertise:-

If you want more exposure to your blog then we can advertise our blog using adwords or bidvertiser. They are many advertising options available online. But considering adwords is best thing to do. Most of bloggers drive traffic to their blogs using adwords. To give power start to their most of the bloggers start advertising their blog using adwords when their blog is new.

Link baiting:-

Link baiting is adopted by many bloggers last year. Write good and useful content and people will link to your blog if they find the post interesting. They are many techniques in link bait which I will discuss later. I did not use link bait methods till now but I would like to experiment it on my blog.

I am sure following the above things will make your blog grow at maximum extent. Don’t take any tension just be cool and do the things regularly.